Logano was Busch's teammate at Joe Gibbs Racing before moving to Penske Racing this season. Kenseth, meanwhile, replaced Logano in JGR's No. 20 car. Logano is now teammates with defending Sprint Cup champion Brad Keselowski, who failed to make the Chase this year.

Logano, who is making his first Chase appearance, showed his indifference when asked by a reporter who would win the title Tuesday at the NASCAR Hall of Fame.

“I look at it as a two-car race right now,” Logano said. “I think everybody else probably sees the same thing between the 20 (of Kenseth) and the 48 (of Johnson).

“They’re both pretty strong. They’re both past champions, so they both know how to do it. Who knows? Really, I don’t care to be honest with you.”

Logano blew an engine and finished 37th at Chicagoland. That put the Penske Racing driver back in 12th and he worked himself up to 10th before finishing 18th and 16th the last two races to put him even further behind.

“I feel like I’m pretty far out,” Logano said. “Last week, I would have told you I was. Now I feel like I’m really far out of this thing.

“Time is running out for the 22 car (of mine). But we can still finish fifth. That’s an achievable goal.”

Logano is 41 points out of fifth, which would still be hard to make up over the final four races.

“We haven't been as consistent as we need to be, and that's why we're not contending to where we want to be right now,” Logano said. “We've had runs that we've had that consistency where we can go six or seven races with straight top-10 finishes or top-five finishes, but then we have the next race is a total blow-up, we either crash or blow up or do something like that.

“We've got to be able to find a way to eliminate those mistakes that we have.”